Victory of Cyrus over Lydia's Croesus at the Battle of Thymbra, 546 BC Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Walter Hutchinson, 1877 Cityscape | Twin Cities urban geographer Bill Lindeke weighs in on city ...

But actually it was his own empire, Lydia, that was conquered. Croesus was captured by the great Persian king Cyrus, and he became the world's favourite moralising example of how fortune can turn ...